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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
VC
Tactile
Macron
Phonics
2. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Multisensory
Middle English
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
3. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
ALTA
Auditory Processing
Mastery level
Attention
4. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Diagnostic Teaching
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
WIATII
Phonological Awareness
5. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Visual Processing
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Middle English
6. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Standard Scores
Modification
Sound Symbol Association
Analytic
7. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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8. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Percentile/ percentile rank
Affix
VC
Dyslexia
9. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 4
Pre-English
Closed Syllable
10. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
IEP
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Anglo Saxon
NICHD
11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
VV
V-e
Towre
12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Chall's Stage 1
Phonemic Awareness
Open Syllable
Tilde
13. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Mastery level
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Fluency
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
14. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
IMSLEC
Modern English
Accuracy
Accommodation
15. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Quadrigraph
Universal Screening
Base Word
16. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Semantics
Whole Language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vr
17. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Curriculum referenced tests
Profile
Derivative
Keith Stanovich
18. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
Phonology
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
WIATII
19. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Matthew Effect
Adolf Kusmaul
Attention
Breve
20. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
[-'le
Modification
Morphology
Matthew Effect
21. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Derived Score
Trigraph
Norm-Referenced Test
Standard Scores
22. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Samuel T. Orton
WIATII
Chall's Stage 4
23. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Diphthong
Prefix
Criterion-Referenced Test
24. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
IMSLEC
IEP
WIATII
25. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
V >
Criterion-Referenced Test
ALTA
26. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Keith Stanovich
Simultaneous teaching
Phoneme
Academic Achievement Tests
27. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Syllable Instruction
Criterion-Referenced Test
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
28. Open syllable
Norm-Referenced Test
V >
Dyslexia
Derived Score
29. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Reading Comprehension Support
WRAT
Macron
30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Keith Stanovich
Profile
Chall's Stage 2
31. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
[-'le
Modification
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
32. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Chall's Stage 3
Joe Torgesen
Digraph
33. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Attention
Combination
Consonant Digraph
Achievement test
34. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Sight Words
Cognition
WIATII
35. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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36. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Battery
Social language
37. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Semantics
Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
Phoneme
38. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Norm-Referenced Test
IEP
VAKT
Visual Learners
39. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
IEP
Norm-Referenced Test
Breve
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
40. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Standard Scores
Diagnostic Teaching
Receptive language
Percentile
41. Whole body learning
Diagnostic Teaching
Six basic types of syllables
James Hinshelwood
Kinesthetic
42. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
ALTA
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IDEA
Pre-English
43. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Universal Screening
Syllable Instruction
Standard deviation
Chall's Stage 2
44. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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45. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
VV
Chall's Stage 4
Greek layer of language
Macron
46. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Macron
Mathew Effect
ALTA
47. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Multisensory
Samuel T. Orton
Phonology
Derived Score
48. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Consonant
Curriculum referenced tests
49. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Tactile
Raw score
Open Syllable
50. Individual Educational Plan
V-e
IEP
Frank Smith
Great Vowel Shift